Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered in a phone call on Thursday to host his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky for talks, his office said, reports news agency MIA.
A meeting between the two leaders would help find a “lasting ceasefire” and a “long-term solution,” Erdogan told Putin. Erdogan stressed the importance of maintaining humanitarian corridors in Ukraine, which Russian troops invaded three weeks ago. Both Kiev and Moscow are open to having Turkey among the countries to offer security guarantees for a potential peace accord, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu said on Thursday.
Cavusoglu met his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, a day after he held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.
